It seems like New Year’s Day 2025 was just a few weeks ago. As I watch 2025 quickly come to an end, it is clear that time passed this year at lightning speed.
2025 was, in many respects, a terrific year, complete with new opportunities and many challenging tax projects. I continue to be extremely grateful for the unwavering support of family, friends, clients and law colleagues!
During 2025, I was able to greatly expand my white paper, A Continuing Magical Mystery Tour Through Subchapter S – With a Stop at Many of the Obscure Destinations Along the Way. It is now more than 220 single-spaced pages. I recently presented it at New York University’s 84th Institute on Federal Taxation in both New York City and San Francisco. This paper provides tax practitioners with a thorough overview of the current state of Subchapter S and the traps that still linger within this tax regime for unwary taxpayers and their advisers.
Larry J. Brant
Editor
Larry J. Brant is a Shareholder and the Chair of the Tax & Benefits practice group at Foster Garvey, a law firm based out of the Pacific Northwest, with offices in Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York, Spokane, Washington; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Beijing, China. Mr. Brant is licensed to practice in Oregon and Washington. His practice focuses on tax, tax controversy and transactions. Mr. Brant is a past Chair of the Oregon State Bar Taxation Section. He was the long-term Chair of the Oregon Tax Institute, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Portland Tax Forum. Mr. Brant has served as an adjunct professor, teaching corporate taxation, at Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and Clark College. He is an Expert Contributor to Thomson Reuters Checkpoint Catalyst. Mr. Brant is a Fellow in the American College of Tax Counsel. He publishes articles on numerous income tax issues, including Taxation of S Corporations, Reasonable Compensation, Circular 230, Worker Classification, IRC § 1031 Exchanges, Choice of Entity, Entity Tax Classification, and State and Local Taxation. Mr. Brant is a frequent lecturer at local, regional and national tax and business conferences for CPAs and attorneys. He was the 2015 Recipient of the Oregon State Bar Tax Section Award of Merit.

